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US4169473:
Anti-snoring and anti-bruxism device
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US United States of America
A PATENT [FROM BEGIN UNTIL END 2000] or PATENT ISSUED AFTER 1ST PUB. WITHIN THE TVPP i
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| Inventor: |
SAMELSON CHARLES F; United States of America
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SAMELSON CHARLES F
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| Published / Filed: |
1979-10-02
/ 1978-03-03
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| Application Number: |
US1978000883270
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| IPC Code: |
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A61F 5/56;
Core:
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| ECLA Code: |
A61F5/56B; K61F5/56A;
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128/136.000;
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| 1978-03-03 |
US1978000883270 |
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| Abstract: |
A device is provided for positioning within the mouth of a user for preventing snoring and nocturnal tooth grinding. The device is an integrally molded body providing an externally located lip-engaging member and internally located parts to be positioned within the user's mouth. The internal portion of the device provides dental engaging arches and a rearwardly-opening central socket for cooperating with the forward portion of the user's tongue in a manner to draw the tongue forwardly so as to increase the unobstructed dimension of the nasal breathing passage. When operatively positioned within the mouth, at least one set of the user's upper or lower dental arches will enter into a channel provided by the device. The device substantially eliminates oral breathing. The tongue will be held in the socket by a negative pressure developed in the socket. When the tongue is held, it draws the body of the tongue forewardly of its usual restive position behind the lower teeth and adjacent the soft palate, the uvula and the posterior pharyngeal wall, thereby increasing the dimension of the air flow passage through the naso-pharynx to facilitate nasal breathing. The device's engagement with at least one of the user's dental arches operates to eliminate nocturnal tooth-grinding.
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None
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